Spec me a simple gaming machine (£250)

JoeCooper · 1 Oct 2009 at 19:10

Hi,

I would like to buy a simple gaming machine to play games like halflife 2 / eve-online / battlefield 2....

I have £250 i would like to spend. i have a 22" flat monitor already.

Geforce prefered.

only need motherboard, ram, graphics card, cpu, case.

Thanks!

JoeCooper · 1 Oct 2009 at 19:22

i have an old dell pc. too old to do anything with.

i have PSU, dont need one, i only need what i listed above. i might go for some used parts from ebay if i need to. just looking for a good spec for £250 ish

JoeCooper · 2 Oct 2009 at 20:27

i think i could make a pretty good pc for £200 out of what i want, with some of your suggestions, but i dont think any of you actually read what i wanted.

looking at a mobo, a geforce graphix cards (had problems with ati, not going to go into it but alweays found geforce more compatible for a NOVICE like me) a cpu and ram, the rest i have lying around ie psu case etc.

soemthing like:

Intel Dual Core E5200 with mother board to suit

an older geforce card (cheaper) ie 9500GTX or simular

with 2 - 4gb ram cheap as chips so anything

JoeCooper · 2 Oct 2009 at 21:07

yeah sorry did ask for a case. but my brother insisted that he make the reply and didnt know i asked for case.

personally i dont like ATI so geforce only.

I didnt plan to use my excisting system as its a ****ty dell 1.8 p4 machine. actually its a very old machine. my £750 laptop broke 1 year 2 days after i bought it. did have a £1500 proper nice pc but no longer have it after various reasons.

still have many PSU's around from different machines. 500W - 900W ones.

JoeCooper · 2 Oct 2009 at 23:59

you people are terrible. really miss the point. i just want the best MB, Graphics Card, Ram, and 250GB harddrive i can get for £250.

Xbox is crap. PS3 is crap. I used to work in IT and had done for many years, just lost touch with the up-to-dates.

JoeCooper · 4 Oct 2009 at 01:46

dangerstat said:
So you think for £250 your going to get a PC that outperforms a Xbox 360 or PS3 for games? I can certanly understand why you "used" to work in IT

i left my job as i was getting underpaid and have since become self employed working from home. i didnt say it would out perform a 360 or ps3. i just dont like using controllers and i want win XP.

also i didnt say i was going to use anything from this old dell pc.

not that it matters anymore, won 150k on the lotto saturday.

oooh I'm a big boy, oh yes I am .

JoeCooper · 4 Oct 2009 at 02:08

i made this post some days ago. im thinking of just going ******* or something to get one now. got some time to wait for it though. cheers anyway

JoeCooper · 4 Oct 2009 at 02:16

d_brennen said:
Like? Any ATI card I've had has been easy as pie... And I've had a few. There is a lot of people out there with that opinion, much like people who blast AMD chips. Odd really, ATI/AMD should be your mfr of choice with such a small budget

just never was familiar with ati. always had geforce cards. didnt fancy the switch.

neways it doesnt matter anymore. going bed. night